Two gambling measures moved on separate tracks in Brazil on October 27. Pedro Lupion, rapporteur in the Chamber of Deputies' Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJC), filed an opinion supporting the legal admissibility of a proposed green lottery. Separately, the government identified its online betting ban as a congressional priority.
Lupion recommended that Bill 1,587/2021 and amendments from earlier committees be found constitutional, legally sound and technically adequate.
The opinion was submitted to the CCJC, which has yet to adopt it. The proposal would authorize the Executive to establish a federal numerical lottery called Loteria Rural Verde, subsequently renamed Loteria Verde in a committee amendment.
The Chamber's Environment and Sustainable Development Committee approved an amendment assigning 60% of lottery receipts to prizes, 20% to operator costs and 20% to the National Environment Fund.
The environmental allocation would finance the Federal Payment for Environmental Services Program. The Finance and Taxation Committee approved the bill and earlier amendments in 2024, leaving the constitutional review as the current stage.
The lottery bill concerns a distinct product from the fixed-odds betting covered by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Provisional Measure 1,394/2026. Its progress does not amend or narrow the ban.
The rapporteur's recommendation also does not create a lottery: lawmakers must complete the legislative process before the Executive could act under the bill.
On the same day, Institutional Relations Minister José Guimarães said the Government would seek votes on the betting prohibition, alongside public security and transport measures.
According to Correio Braziliense, the betting measure must clear a joint congressional committee and both chambers by November 23 to remain in force beyond its initial term. The government has not secured those votes.
The betting ban has already closed the regulated fixed-odds market, while constitutional challenges are pending before the Supreme Federal Court.
A court hearing is scheduled for November 3.
Congress can approve, amend or reject the measure, so the legislative timetable remains material to operators, sports sponsors and state lottery interests.
Following Lula's October 25 re-election, Global Gaming Insider reported that the betting ban still awaited a congressional decision, with November 23 listed as the initial deadline for deliberation.
Bill 1,587/2021 was introduced in April 2021 by Deputy Evair Vieira de Melo and concerns a proposed numerical lottery
